Editorial Statement—Behavioral Economics and Decision Analysis

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND DECISION ANALYSIS

Manel Baucells, University of Virginia

Yan Chen, University of Michigan

Axel Ockenfels, University of Cologne

Yuval Rottenstreich, University of California, San Diego

Ilia Tsetlin, INSEAD

The Behavioral Economics and Decision Analysis Department of Management Science seeks papers that promote the understanding of how decisions are and should be made by individuals and groups. Thus, the scope of the department includes topics that are in the domains of behavioral economics, decision analysis, and judgment and decision making. Papers must meet the rigorous standards of the journal. They must also be relevant to the science of management, by dealing with issues important to managers and executives and having the potential to impact management practice by providing insights into behavior and decision making.

Papers may consider individual and group decisions, judgments of likelihood and confidence, negotiations, game theoretic analysis of strategic interactions, as well as the design of markets, allocation rules, and decision architectures. Papers should be theory-based and may develop original theory, address problems of implementation, propose new models or methodologies, present empirical evidence either from the laboratory or from the field, and/or involve innovative or important applications. Descriptive theory papers should be integrative and account for both existing findings and new data. We particularly encourage multidisciplinary research that embraces different methodologies in the social and management sciences.